Mimi Hanaoka suggests: The chaotic violence that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three American staffers in Libya, and that led...

  Tim Barrus: Health Care is More Than Surgery   Chase had open heart surgery. I walked into his hospital room today, and the smell was explosive....

This past week’s postings had me bumping into some crucial issues. Mostly they were about the nature of authority and their efficacy in protecting...

Among both the characters and the commentators involved in “Generation Kill” — and I realize there was a lot of blurring between the...

This is a quote from the earliest message to Tim Barrus that I archived. "Another Blackfeet kid was murdered yesterday — throat cut.  Probably...

1.  First you have to realize that it really needs changing.  We’ve got that one.   2.  There’s not much hope of changing genes.  That’s...

In 1953 when my mother went back to school to finish her BA, she arrived at Portland State College with a wave of returning Korean veterans.  Korea, it...

                            As I read slowly through Ronald L. Grimes’ book, “Ritual...

The image is shocking, mysterious, hard to look at but hard to look away from.  Is that blood?  It’s part of a person.  Once we realize we’re looking...